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Re: Turkey becoming an Islamic State
Reply #30 - Jul 20^th, 2016 at 1:13pm

Lord Herbert wrote on Jul 20^th, 2016 at 12:28pm:

issuevoter wrote on Jul 20^th, 2016 at 7:48am:

When? That depends how honest he is with himself. His feigned objectivity is for our benefit.

Needless to say, and very understandably, Gandalf's entire waking hours on this board are devoted to the hopeless task of 'Damage Control' - the same way the ship's engineers tried to stop the sinking of the Titanic.

Life is all about perspective. The sinking of the Titanic was a miracle to the lobsters in the ship's kitchen.

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Re: Turkey becoming an Islamic State
Reply #31 - Jul 20^th, 2016 at 3:07pm

Lord Herbert wrote on Jul 20^th, 2016 at 12:28pm:

issuevoter wrote on Jul 20^th, 2016 at 7:48am:

When? That depends how honest he is with himself. His feigned objectivity is for our benefit.

Needless to say, and very understandably, Gandalf's entire waking hours on this board are devoted to the hopeless task of 'Damage Control' - the same way the ship's engineers tried to stop the sinking of the Titanic.

And he does it for no pay.

Now that's what I call obsession dedication.

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Re: Turkey becoming an Islamic State
Reply #32 - Jul 20^th, 2016 at 3:08pm

aquascoot wrote on Jul 20^th, 2016 at 1:13pm:

Life is all about perspective. The sinking of the Titanic was a miracle to the lobsters in the ship's kitchen.

Good one! But, err ... didn't the ship sink 4 miles down where the pressure was so many tons per square inch?

A relative of mine was on the Titanic's sister ship - the one that didn't go down.

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Re: Turkey becoming an Islamic State
Reply #33 - Jul 20^th, 2016 at 3:21pm

Lisa Jones wrote on Jul 20^th, 2016 at 3:07pm:

Lord Herbert wrote on Jul 20^th, 2016 at 12:28pm:

issuevoter wrote on Jul 20^th, 2016 at 7:48am:

When? That depends how honest he is with himself. His feigned objectivity is for our benefit.

Needless to say, and very understandably, Gandalf's entire waking hours on this board are devoted to the hopeless task of 'Damage Control' - the same way the ship's engineers tried to stop the sinking of the Titanic.

And he does it for no pay.

Now that's what I call obsession dedication.

Speaking of lobsters ... poor gandalf entered a lobster-trap the day he decided that Islam had The Answers he needed to ascend to a higher plane of spiritual enlightenment - something that apparently the bible couldn't provide for him.

But no sooner had he joined this Pathway to Righteousness - when all hell broke lose on the international front, with car bombs, suicide belts, beheadings, mass-rape, planes and trucks used as projectiles, knives, axes ... all the good things that Islam has become famous for in recent times.

And like a lobster in its trap, he can't back out now. There's no retreat. It's like joining the Mafia, it's a One Way ticket. Apostasy is frowned upon, and gandy is not yet ready to lose his head over quitting this inspirational faith that makes the news on a daily basis for all the wrong reasons.

I would like to start a Crowd Fund to pay for gandalf to have cosmetic surgery so he can walk away from Islam without being a marked man ...

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Re: Turkey becoming an Islamic State
Reply #34 - Mar 23^rd, 2021 at 6:19pm

AYanker wrote on Jul 20^th, 2016 at 9:25am:

Oh, shut up, man...

Square-up the murder of European colonialism (which is still ongoing, in many opinions) before shouting down Islam. Islam as just as bloody and backwards as Christianity or Judaism. And here's a counter-quote. Roll Eyes

"Deuteronomy 17
If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant; 17:3 And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded; 17:4 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel; 17:5 Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die."

Can you find anything in any other religion that is comparable to chapter 9 of the Quran?

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Re: Turkey becoming an Islamic State
Reply #36 - Mar 23^rd, 2021 at 7:15pm

freediver wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2021 at 6:19pm:

Can you find anything in any other religion that is comparable to chapter 9 of the Quran?

Quantity or quality questions immediately arise. However, this question has no simple answer.

https://timothyrenner.github.io/datascience/2015/12/02/violence-in-religious-tex
t.html
We might more fruitfully ask why so many civilizations have felt comfortable inflicting obscene cruelties in the name of their imagined God/Gods.

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Re: Turkey becoming an Islamic State
Reply #37 - Mar 24^th, 2021 at 6:18pm

Ayn Marx wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2021 at 7:15pm:

freediver wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2021 at 6:19pm:

Can you find anything in any other religion that is comparable to chapter 9 of the Quran?

Quantity or quality questions immediately arise. However, this question has no simple answer.

https://timothyrenner.github.io/datascience/2015/12/02/violence-in-religious-tex
t.html
We might more fruitfully ask why so many civilizations have felt comfortable inflicting obscene cruelties in the name of their imagined God/Gods.

Sure it does. No.

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